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Until 100% of households have an HD monitor no hi-def format is going to be a replacement for DVD. This is where posting in an enthusiast echo-chamber like this one distorts peoples' perceptions. There is simply no question of either hi-def format replacing SD-DVD in the near future. Hell...

Right. All the HD-DVD player owners could just throw out their $500 machines and buy $1,000 Blu Ray players like good little sheep. Makes perfect sense. Regards, Joe

Except that TotalHD is somewhat analagous to being able to get either DirecTV or Dish hardware and being able to switch to the other service later. Again, it removes the fear of obsolecense that is holding a lot of people back from checking out hi-def DVD in either format. And the continued...

Meanwhile three Chinese player makers as well as Onkyo plan to introduce lower-priced HD-DVD players later this year, the triple-layer, 51GB HD-DVD is being tested (there goes that vaunted capacity advantage) and Blu Ray is still trying to work out that whole interactivity thing. With Warner...

I want a hi-def player that can join my 400-disc Sony SD DVD changers. Disc aesthetics and handling problems are really a non-issue when you neither see nor handle the disc after the first time you load it in the changer. :) Regards, Joe

Well, no. :) These are two-sided discs. A flipper, properly speaking, is a disc that has part of the movie on one side and the rest on the other side. That is, one that has to be flipped to be watched. This is just a disc that has stuff on side 2 that you have no interest in. (Rather like the...

Again, not until quite late in the process. And you're confusing cause and effect. "[T]he rental stores had more titles on VHS" in "most places" because VHS was in the process of winning the format war. Rental stores were stocking more VHS tapes because there was more demand for VHS. There...

SACD/DVD-A failed because they were a solution without a problem. This is the same reason DIVX ultimately failed. One of these days technology types are going to realize "if you build it, they will come" is something that only works in the movies (and then only in fantasy films.) Just because...

Exactly. With such a combo disc I might consider hi-def DVD, because whatever the outcome of the format war, my hi-def DVD collection won't become obsolete. The argument that everybody who might buy these discs already has a player, or that nobody will ever replace a current player are just...

The average consumer isn't going to be the target market for any form of hi-def disc or player for several years. The average consumer doesn't have an HD display and is just getting up to speed on standard DVD. And he certainly isn't going to drop $500 to $1000 on a new player. The average...

The LG story has been reported in varoius forms since yesterday, and they were making public noises about such player since last year, so this isn't exactly a scoop. (It is mentioned further up in this thread, for one thing. :)) Video business released a story on both the WB discs and the LG...

Well, it wouldn't cost much. Replication and physical media are among the lowest costs for any digital disc-based medium. I don't know why people act as though having two discs doubles the cost of a DVD or having one disc should cut cost in half. Content is expensive. And it costs almost exactly...

Why would you imagine that? Are current HD-DVD and Blu Ray discs single layer? Do you think that Warner Bros. (which has been talking about this idea for over a year now) might have considered this issue before they developed the new disc standard and decided to debut it? Now we're rejecting...